One of the traps people fall into on teams is withholding information
that’s critical for the team to function. Sometimes the information is
about...
0 replies - 1051 views - 03/03/13 by Esther Derby in Articles
Without the disciplined technical practices provided by XP, Scrum projects will always flounder. A classic post from 2010.
Martin Fowler wrote a...
0 replies - 2517 views - 03/01/13 by Steve Smith in Articles
Anna and I were recently discussing the way that we get things done outside of work and since December I’ve been fairly religiously working through various...
0 replies - 2830 views - 02/28/13 by Mark Needham in Articles
I recently had the good fortune to fly in from Doha to Dubai in a Dreamliner, and later again from Bangalore to Delhi – before they got grounded following a...
1 replies - 1083 views - 02/27/13 by Tathagat Varma in Articles
A few days back I saw the presentation from Netflix about its culture, and three interesting slides from it was about what drives talent out of a company....
1 replies - 1538 views - 02/27/13 by Asankha Perera in Articles
When picking iteration length for an agile project, there are mainly two forces that you have to balance: The rate of learning is proportional with the number...
0 replies - 1453 views - 02/22/13 by Johannes Brodwall in Articles
Recently I’ve come to value experiments. I value them so much, it seems all I’m doing is experimenting.
That’s no coincidence: In an agile...
1 replies - 1568 views - 02/22/13 by Gil Zilberfeld in Articles
How do you deal with a manager who believes that a software development team needs to go faster and should be pushed? I want to review some of the responses to...
0 replies - 1205 views - 02/22/13 by Benjamin Mitchell in Articles
When you have determined what your values and purpose are as a team or organization, you have to put your money where your mouth is. Turn your values and...
0 replies - 919 views - 02/21/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles
I will be moderating a panel discussion on this topic at the Agile India 2013. Given the incessant pace of technology evolution, ever-growing competition where...
0 replies - 1615 views - 02/21/13 by Tathagat Varma in Articles
Management love their metrics. The thinking goes something like this, "We need a number to measure how we’re doing. Numbers focus people and help us measure...
0 replies - 3231 views - 02/20/13 by Patrick Kua in Articles
Last week I gave the “Agile tribe war” talk (short short version) in Hebrew at DevCon TLV (which was mighty fun and at an excellent location, bar-wise)....
0 replies - 1338 views - 02/20/13 by Gil Zilberfeld in Articles
You might have met a manager on a bad manager day. Equally as frustrating is when you work for a manager who has rules about problem solving.
I once worked...
0 replies - 972 views - 02/20/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles
There is a huge difference between a principle and a best practice.
Best practices are subjective and depend largely on context, while principles are...
1 replies - 7196 views - 02/19/13 by John Sonmez in Articles
Code Metrics sure get mixed feelings by developers, especially when combined with thresholds to form checks that might make a CI build fail. Typical examples...
0 replies - 3046 views - 02/19/13 by Jens Schauder in Articles
